Peace Agenda

Peace Must Be A Priority

I believe that deep in our hearts all Jews-including the angry Israelis-want peace, thus, as I go shopping for a synagogue so that I can rejoin the Jewish people, I wholeheartedly commit myself to being a Jewish peace activist. Nevertheless, I no longer believe that it is fruitful to bash Benjamin Netanyahu and other Jews, who seem to believe that peace is unattainable or that it will only come when other people submit to the Jewish will.

We Jews must cease our infighting and come together to formulate a plan for putting a stop to the hostilities in the Middle East and other parts of the world. It won’t be easy because we have real, hardened enemies in the Arab world and plenty of cynical Westerners (both Jew and Gentile), too, who think that there is nothing wrong with Israel and the world being at war forever.

But I think it’s terrible that generation after generation of Israelis have to walk around in army fatigues and that Jews all over the world must be submitted to anti-Semitism, partially because of the situation in the Middle East.

We must believe in God and we must believe in the importance of peace, something that many esteemed and religious Jews think is one of God’s top priorities.

I don’t care that many Jews and Gentiles may think that my agenda is foolish: I don’t see how one can be a Jew and not be concerned about ending war and other forms of hostilities both in the U.S. and abroad.

Craig R. Bayer, 12/31/17